PERCEPTUAL LEARNING STYLES PREFERENCES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (original) (raw)
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Paper title: The Effect of Visual, Auditory, and Kinaesthetic Learning Styles on Language Teaching
The ability to understand student learning styles can increase the educational experience. Teachers might adjust their teaching style so that it is more congruent with a given student's or class of students' learning style. One of the most important uses of learning styles is that it makes it easy for teachers to incorporate them into their teaching. There are different learning styles. Three of the most popular ones are visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic in which STUDENTS take in information. Some students are visual learners, while others are auditory or kinaesthetic learners. While students use all of their senses to take in information, they seem to have preferences in how they learn best. In order to help students learn, teachers need to teach as many of these preferences as possible. Teachers can incorporate these learning styles in their curriculum activities so that students are able to succeed in their classes. This study is an analysis of learning styles for Iranian EFL students. The purpose of this study is to increase faculty awareness and understanding of the effect of learning styles on the teaching process. A review of the literature along with analysis of the data will determine how learning styles affect the teaching process.
An exploration of relationship between perceptual learning styles and achievement goals
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This perceptual learning styles research looked into how students perceive and process information based on their preferred learning styles. This paper investigated the perceptual learning styles of students at a polytechnic in Malaysia. In this study, quantitative methods were employed to collect data. In addition, Reid's (1984) Perceptual Learning Styles Preferences Questionnaire (PLSPQ) was administered to a total of 163 respondents in the polytechnic (103 Commerce and 60 Engineering respondents). Based on the mean scores, the kinaesthetic learning style appeared to be the most preferred learning style, and followed by the group learning style. The least preferred learning style was the individual learning style. Meanwhile, the t-test displayed a significant difference for the learning styles adopted by the Commerce and Engineering students. The Commerce students favoured individual learning, in comparison to Engineering students. The implications of this paper suggest that educators need to pay attention to their students' perceptual learning styles in order to engage them in a more effective learning and teaching process, as well as to encourage student-oriented learning process to take place, especially in an ESL classroom.
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Perceptual Learning Style and Learning Proficiency: A Test of the Hypothesis
Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
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The purpose of this study was to investigate if there are significant relationships and gender differences among perceptual learning styles preferences, and academic achievement of students. The target population was 1884 in Debre Markos preparatory school in 2005. A sample size of 210 participants was selected using stratified and simple random sampling technique from the population based on the roster of record office. A self-report questionnaire was used to collect data on perceptual learning styles preferences while current semester examination scores were used to determine the average academic achievement for each participant. The instruments were administered after piloting to determine their suitability, validity and reliability. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient after piloting was 0.892. The questionnaire was revised to improve the reliability coefficient. The data collected from the sample size were analyzed by Pearson product movement correlation coefficient and independent sample t-test. The hypotheses were tested at a = 0.05.The findings indicated a significant positive relationship between students' perceptual learning styles preferences, and academic achievement. The findings also indicated that there were significant gender differences in perceptual learning styles preferences and academic achievement scores of students. It was recommended that providing welcome orientations, counseling services, short-term training and selecting classroom models are some of the solutions need to be given a due attention from teachers and school counselors.
An Investigation of Learning Style Preferences on the Students’ Academic Achievements of English
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2017
This study aims to investigate whether there are any statistically significant correlation between perceptual learning styles and achievement. Raising learners’ awareness regarding their learning styles and preferences, which develops the better understanding of the learning achievement, and help instructors become more conscious of some factors affecting academic achievement. Additionally, the study assists instructors to identify their student’s preferred learning styles that can affect their achievement. Furthermore, no study up to now has been conducted in Jordan which investigates the relationship between the learning styles on the achievement of EFL at the tertiary level. The data was collected through the learning style preferences questionnaire and it was analyzed using statistical techniques, Descriptive statistics showed that: 1). The most preferred learning styles followed the auditory style, group learning style, kinesthetic style and visual style. 2). The finding also r...